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Published in: Public Choice 3-4/2015

01-06-2015 | Book Review

William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

Basic Books, New York, NY, 2013, viii + 394 pp, USD 29.99 (cloth)

Author: Claudia R. Williamson

Published in: Public Choice | Issue 3-4/2015

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In The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, William Easterly sets out to right an economic wrong. He does so by engaging the opposing ideas of the joint recipients of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics, Gunnar Myrdal and F.A. Hayek. Their ideas have created an economic development divide with Myrdal spearheading the authoritarian technical development view and Hayek leading the free individuals development movement. Easterly draws on the last six decades of economic research to provide a critique of the authoritarian view in favor of an individual rights perspective. And he does so in his usual entertaining, snarky, brilliant and poetic style. …
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Title
William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
Basic Books, New York, NY, 2013, viii + 394 pp, USD 29.99 (cloth)
Author
Claudia R. Williamson
Publication date
01-06-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Public Choice / Issue 3-4/2015
Print ISSN: 0048-5829
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7101
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0257-8

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